David H. DeWolf wrote: > Yup, we just need to make sure that we provide the protocol in order to > follow Apache ByLaws. We need the PMC to have the correct level of > oversight. I'm no expert on this so I'll rely on Carsten and others for > their assistance. > > Carsten, if we take the patch and incremental commit approach do you > think we still need to go through the incubator? Hmm, I'm really not sure - in general patches do not have to go through the incubator, so the question becomes "when is it a patch and when is it a code donation?" Adding something to jira does not necessarily mean that it is a patch. Now, I don't want to imply that this will/is happening here with pluto 2.0, I just want to express the possibilities: it is not that hard to split up a big code donation into a set of patches. Allowing this would mean bypassing the incubator.
So, we should really make sure that these are "real patches" (whatever that means) :) Anyways, i think we should ask our PMC; if they approve it, I'm fine. > In a way I kind of > agree with Craig that this development is more like "enhancements" to an > existing codebase (after all, it's all on top of 1.1) as opposed to a > totally new project. At the same time, I want to make sure we follow > the right protocol. Yes, that's my pov as well. It would be great if the people "behind the patches" :) would make themselves heard on this list though. Carsten -- Carsten Ziegeler - Open Source Group, S&N AG http://www.s-und-n.de http://www.osoco.org/weblogs/rael/
